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Can you claim an education and textbook amount?
Question 1
Did you receive any of the following amounts:
- a grant or a reimbursement for the cost of your courses from an employer, or another person with whom you deal at arm's length, other than by award money received?
- a benefit as part of a program (such as free meals and lodging from a nursing school)?
- an allowance for a program such as a training allowance?
Notes
A grant, reimbursement, benefit, or allowance does not include any scholarship, fellowship, bursary, award, or prize you received, or any benefit you received under the Canada Student Financial Assistance Act, Canada Student Loans Act, or An Act respecting financial assistance for education expenses of the Province of Quebec.
These amounts also do not include financial assistance provided under Part II of the Employment Insurance Act (as shown in box 20 of your T4E slip), a labour market development agreement as part of a similar provincial or territorial program, or a program developed under the authority of the Department of Human Resources and Skills Development Act.
